Spanking of children

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>> It is especially bad here in El Paso.  The hispanic
>> culture is very permissive with their children.  I wonder if that
>> is why there are so many gangs here.
>
>	I beg to differ with your opinion of how Hispanics raise their 
>children.  I am Hispanic myself and whenever I did anything wrong, you 
>can rest assured that I got a spanking from my parents.  Belt and all.  
>Some of my Hispanic friends were treated the same way by their parents.
>As a result, I have a great deal of respect for my parents and the same 
>goes for my friends and their parents.  Therefore, the statement you made 
>earlier about Hispanics being permissive with their children is ,in my 
>opinion, incorrect and unjustified.

I agree with you Joshua (great name!). We need to be careful not to lump all
Hispanics or all people of African descent or Italian descent or Jewish
descent or any other descent. All are people with good and bad in all races. 

I do understand how easy it is to fall into this trap however.  We all go by
our own experience and  what we see.  It follows that if a person see whites
continually stealing cars then all whites (at least where they live) are car
thieves. . . . . . . . . Whoops!  Excuse me, I forgot to lock my car.



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Stan Hallett
Camden, Maine
stanh@midcoast.com